an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained, and i  would go outside 
 i thought, so  i  smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,   and  outside  the   rain  had 
 turned into  snow so  thick  that it was 
 as dense fog ... and then i  went to get 
 the mail,  but there was a woman  and we 
 talked a little. now because i  was high 
 and it was  snowing  so funny and i  had 
 an  umbrella  against the snow, but snow 
 all over my face  anyway, and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life